3 March 2013
Did you feel the earth move? As we celebrated St David’s day on Friday, I heard again the most famous story about Saint David preaching to a huge crowd and the ground rising up, creating a hill so everyone had a better chance of hearing him. Did this really happen? I don’t know. Is it possible? With God… absolutely! I have heard this story before, but I hadn’t heard about one of his other miracles... the dove. Saint David is often depicted with a dove on his shoulder. This dove is believed to have rested on him when he preached the good news of Jesus. One secular commentator has suggested that this story represents the most pointless miracle ever. Clearly this commentator is unaware of the significance of the dove. Many understand the dove to simply represent peace, but the true meaning is much more profound. Biblically we know that the dove is representative of the Holy Spirit. When we have the presence of God, anything is possible, whether it is in the form of the ground moving miraculously, or in faithfully serving God day by day. If you take one lesson from the things we hear about St David, let it be reliance upon and a treasuring of the presence of God in our lives. Jesus replied, ‘What is impossible with man is possible with God.’ (Luke 18:27) |
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